More than just pointy ears: on Tolkien’s elves and Star Trek’s vulcans.

So I’m running two blogs, and I’ve just posted something on my other one, which I think would be of interest to readers of this site, namely:

http://triviumquadrivium.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/more-than-just-pointy-ears-on-tolkiens-elves-and-star-treks-vulcans/

In which I explore the reasons why Vulcans and Elves (and Jedi) are so darn compelling, to the point that people have made religions out of them! 

Just FYI, the other blog is about using the liberal arts and idealism to create an “ideal society” (and to figure out what that might mean).  Because that one is kind of “non-fiction”, I thought it best to keep those posts separate from the ones on this site, which deal with similar issues of idealism, but which are explicitly all about “fictional” representations of idealism.  So, now you know. 

Cheerio –

-Trivium.